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Porn production in Los Angeles was halted for a third time this year after a testing facility reported an adult performer was positive with HIV, an adult industry trade association said in a statement Friday.

Privacy was requested for a porn actor who tested positive for HIV during a mandatory screening last week, according to the Free Speech Coalition, an industry advocacy group.

The group said after the latest moratorium that condoms could in some cases be more harmful than no protection.

"Condoms aren’t perfect. They break," the group said. "In the shoots that can take several hours, they can cause abrasions known as 'condom rash,' which, paradoxically, can make it easier to transmit an infection if one does break."

Measure B was aimed at preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases within the industry's actors.